The orange and the potato: dysfunction within self-made paradigms

Late night musing are often not worth sharing. This may be one of them, but since I’m new at this blog thing, I’ll take a risk and post. There is this husband and wife who have, it seems, a difficult arrangement. The husband lives most of his time in a different city than his wife and often travels abroad for business. It’s almost as if this couple looks at marriage like it is, let’s say for the sake of illustration, a potato, when in fact, marriage is, let’s say, an orange. So they cook and fry their “potato” and wonder why things don’t come out they way they expect. If only they knew that they were dealing with an orange and not a potato. People often define things the way they want and then operate within that paradigm, suffering in relationships and not realizing their mistake. Haven’t we all suffered the dysfunctional effects of our self-made paradigms at one time or another? God save us, and He can. That familiar verse Ps.119:105 puts us on track in stating, “Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” May God’s Word enlighten and free us.